IV. 



MY GARDEN HOW IT GREW. 



A PERSON with a genuine love of gardening 

 is like sorrel, aggressive in his nature. He can- 

 not see a nice piece of ground without mentally 

 plotting it out, and if he gets a chance he is apt 

 to do it in reality. Old King Ahab did a very 

 Laean thing even for him, and that is saying a 

 great deal, when he took Naboth's vineyard ; 

 but after all it was only a gardener's instinct 

 perverted. It was the most natural thing in the 

 world that he should want the good mellow 

 piece of ground "whi;h was hard by the 

 palace, for a garden of herbs." If woman, who 

 got a gardener in trouble before, had not 

 stepped in, the whole thing might have ended 



